French Drain Installation
Eliminate standing water and protect your foundation with professionally installed French drains. Perforated pipe + clean gravel + filter fabric — sized to your site and pitched to daylight.
Drainage solutions, French drains, site grading, and trench work for Cleveland's Eastside. We dig it once, pitch it right, and leave the yard looking better than we found it.
Tell us about the drainage or excavation problem. We reply within 24 hours.
When Cleveland homeowners face standing water, basement seep, or slopes giving way, they call Samson Landscape + Design. Years on the Eastside means we know the clay, the frost line, and the way water wants to move on a Heights lot.
Our excavation work goes past shovel-and-pipe. We read topography, soil, and flow — then design a system that lasts. Residential or commercial, we show up with the equipment, the license, and a plan.
Eliminate standing water and protect your foundation with professionally installed French drains. Perforated pipe + clean gravel + filter fabric — sized to your site and pitched to daylight.
Proper grading is the cheapest water management tool you own. We reshape contours so runoff moves away from the house and toward designated swales and catch basins.
Not sure where the water is coming from? We walk the property, map downspouts, check soil, and build a cost-ranked plan — from a single downspout extension to a full sub-surface system.
Stop losing topsoil. We stabilize slopes with strategic excavation, armored swales, retaining walls, and drainage pickups that keep soil where it belongs.
From the first utility locate to the last rake of topsoil — here's what working with our crew looks like.
Public utility locates are called in first. Then we mark private lines, septic, irrigation, and low-voltage — every dig starts with a clean underground picture.
Mini-excavator, skid-steer, or hand-dig based on access and soil. Spoils are staged on plywood so we protect turf, and cuts are squared off for a clean install.
Pipe, fabric, and stone go in to spec with a laser level confirming pitch. Every joint is checked. Every catch basin sits level and flush.
Compacted backfill, clean finish grade, and topsoil/seed or sod — your yard leaves looking like we were never there, except the water problem is gone.


Residential and commercial jobs across Cleveland's Eastside and the surrounding inner-ring suburbs.
